It is only when I encounter serious, unironic magical thinking that I realize I'll never be able to get beyond ironic indulgence in it. I cannot unsee the very obvious and systematic breaks with realism. I'm not a rationalist, but I'm definitely a hardliner realist.
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Evolution happened in a quantum mechanical environment.
It gave us eyes and noses. They're not classical systems.
They're not the only non-classical systems in the body. Magnetic sense?
And maybe more....
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do you think magical thinking is ever adaptive (ie correct response to the situation)?
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Oh definitely. It works and is adaptive, but never for the reasons its sincere believers think it does.
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If it’s connected to a large enough network of similar magical thinking, a new layer of reality is formed, creating an ecosystem with real world benefits and of course changing the overall nature of reality. And if it gets even bigger it reduces reality to a obscure sideshow.
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This is my problem with ideas like those found in the book 'Creative Visualization'. If your happy visualizations create good things for you, well, the second edge of the sword is that the bad things you might visualize might create bad things for you.
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